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Enviado el: viernes, 22 de marzo de 2002 11:12 The dollar sign as we know it today was based on the hand-writing contained in the accounts ledgers periodically submitted to the Second Continental Congress by Oliver Pollock, who was congressional agent at New Orleans during the American Revolution. Pollock kept financial accounts for the money and value of military goods and supplies being furnished to the rebels by the Spanish government through the port of New Orleans. The monetary unit employed was the Peso Fuerte, which became the monetary basis of the U.S. dollar. Pollock's handwriting superimposed a highly stylized "F" over the "P" in a fashion that caused clerks in Philadelphia to render the symbol as what has become "$" since the "curl" of Pollock's "P" and the "F" overlapped, with the body of the "P" becoming the single downstroke. This explanation is documented in the papers of Robert Morris, who was Chair of the Secret Committee of Correspondence and Secretary of Finance for the later Confederation government. By the time of his death in the early 1820s, Pollock had become popularly known as the creator of the dollar sign. Light Cummins Austin College
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